Toilet seat elevator



April 25, 1961 H. H. TAYLOR 2,980,922

TOILET SEAT ELEVATOR Filed April 8, 1960 INVENTOR.

HOMER H 774 V4 OR I %%mozq mm 2,980,922 Patented Apr. 25, 1961 United States PatentCfiiCe This invention relates to-a novel elevator for spacing a conventional toilet bowl seat assembly at a greater spacer 36 has an oval centered opening 42 which registers with the toilet bowl opening 18. The spacer 36 is preferably vertically elongated rectangular in cross section, and has a bottom wall 44, upstanding parallel outer and inner sidewalls 46 and 48, respectively, and a fiat horizontal top wall 50, the spacer being made of suitable non-corrosive lightweight material,

preferably plastic. The walls of the spacer 36' are distorted and extended rearwardly to provide an extension 52 on the rear end of the spacer, which spacedly overlies the toilet bowl extension 16, and is spaced upwardly from the bottom of the spacer. The forward leaves 30 of the than normal height above the bowl, for the accommodation of persons unable to conveniently use a standard height seat assembly.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an efficient and highly practical spacer of the kindindioated which can be easily installed or removed without special tools or skill, and which can be a permanent or a temporary installation, without mutilation of the seat assembly Or the bowl.

Another object of the invention is to provide an inex:

pensive and attractive spacer of the character indicated above which is sanitary, light in weight, can have a suitable appearance relative to the bowl and the seat assembly, and which is uncomplex in construction, and composed of a small number of simple components. i Other important objects and advantageous features of the invention will be apparent from the followingdescription and the accompanying drawing, wherein, for purposes of illustration only, a specific form of the invention is set forth in detail.

In the drawings:

' Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional toilet, showing a spacer of the present invention installed on the bowl thereof and supporting the seat assembly;

Figure 2 is an enlarged side elevation of Figure 1, with the spacer and the seat assembly in vertical section;

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the spacer; and

Figure 4 is a bottom perspective view of the spacer with a portion thereof broken away to show internal structure.

Referring in detail to the drawing, wherein like numerals designate like parts throughout the several views, there is shown a conventional toilet installation having a toilet bowl 10 having a horizontal upper surface 12 having a portion 14 on a rearwardly extending extension 16, and formed, forwardly from the portion 14, with an oval opening 18. V

The extension 16 has a pair of laterally spaced vertical openings 20 through which toilet seat hinge securing bolts 22 extend downwardly and have wing nuts 24 on their lower ends. The bolts 22 are secured to the rear leaves 26 of hinges 28, which have forward leaves 30,,which are normally secured, as by means of screws 32, to the underside of the rear end of a toilet seat 34, and which,

instead, are secured to the underside of a spacer 36, of

the present invention; the upper forwardly extending leaves, present in conventional hinges of this kind,.and secured to the-underside of a toilet seat cover 38, being removed from thehinges 28.

' The illustrated spacer 36 comprises an oval hollow body 40 of substantially the same shape and 'size as the hinges 28 are secured to the underside of the spacer bot-i tom wall 44, at the rear end of the spacer, as by means" of the screws 32, which extend through holes 54, provided in the bottom wall 44, and are threaded in a rein forcing plate 56 which bears upon the upper surface of the related area of the bottom wall, whereby the spacer is hinged on the toilet bowl to swing upwardly therefrom for easy cleaning thereof and of the bowl 10. Extending around'and depending from the bottom wall 44, in the region of the inner sidewall 48, is a drip molding 58,

which serves to prevent wetting of the top of the bowl 10, by matter passing downwardly and through the spacer-36. The top and bottom walls and 62, respectively, of theispacer extension 52 are formedwith later allyspaced pairs of holes 64 and 566, respectively, and vertical spacing tubes 67 are' positioned between the walls 60 and 62, to prevent collapse thereof under strain, and are registered with the holes 64 and 66, and accommodate the downwardly extending bolts68 of standard toiletseat hinges 70. The hinges '70 have stationary or fixed rear-leaves 72 having stop flanges 74 which bear upon the upper surface of the upper extension wall 60, and to-which the bolts 68 are fixed. The bolts 68 have wing nuts 76 on their lower ends which bear against the underside of V spacer 36.

While there has been shown and described a preferred form of the invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not necessarily confined thereto, and that any change or changes in the structure of and in the relative arrangements of components thereof are contemplated as being within the scope of the invention as defined by the claims appended hereto.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination, a toilet bowl havinga top opening,

' a horizontal upper surface surrounding said opening, and

a rearward extension, a spacer normally'resting upon said upper surface, said spacer having an opening registered with the bowl opening, said spacer having a rearward extension overlying and spaced above the bowl extension,

first hinge means connected to and extending between V the bowl extension and a rear part of the spacer and hinging the spacer to swing upwardly away from the toilet bowl, second hinge means comprising fixed leaf means fixed upon the spacer extension .and upper and lower swingable leaf means, a toilet seat normally resting upon said spacer and fixed to the lower swingable leaf means,

and a toilet seat cover normally resting upon said seal: and fixed to the upper swingable leaf means, said spacer being hollow and comprising a bottom wall towhich the 

